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As we look ahead to the Internet trends of 2014, let’s not forget about what Google helped
produce last year:

• Google Glass.

• A sneering, derisive hatred for the use of Google Glass.

The odd-looking pair of glasses allows someone to navigate the Internet hands-free with commands
that begin, “OK, Glass.”

Some people have a visceral reaction to Glass users, derogatively called Glassholes — because of
what Mat Honan of
Wired describes as the “class divide on your face.”

“Wearing Glass separates you,” Honan wrote this week.

“It says that not only did you have $1,500 to plunk down to be part of the ‘explorer’ program
but that Google deemed you special enough to warrant inclusion. (Not everyone who wanted Glass got
it; you had to be selected.)”

Also this week, the new blog “OK Glass, I do” featured a bride wearing Google Glass and
recording the wedding experience from her perspective.

The video quickly went viral.

By the end of this year, CNET writer Seth Rosenblatt predicts, Glass will have gone public and,
in the process, forever altered Google — especially if the price tag is lowered to $600, as the
company has mentioned.

We’ll have to wait and see — perhaps through extremely high-tech lenses.